This morning, Speaker Ryan participated in a Reuters Newsmaker event, where he continued to make the case for how historic tax reform will help working families. Watch the full interview here and check out the excerpts below.

Speaker Ryan: “This so-called recovery we’ve had, it’s been very good for people on the top end, people in equity markets and on Wall Street are doing really well. But if you’re working on a fixed income, living paycheck to paycheck like half the people in this country who live paycheck to paycheck, another large amount of people are about one paycheck away from living paycheck to paycheck, you haven’t seen a raise in a long time. You’re seeing your living standards pretty much flat line because your prices are going up. So we do have a sense of urgency, we want the economic growth to apply to everybody, we want middle-income taxpayers to finally get a break and we want middle-income taxpayers to actually feel some confidence and to get some growth in their wages and their paychecks.”

Speaker Ryan: “I’m pretty darn confident that when we drop our corporate tax rate from the highest in the industrialized world, to leading the pack in the industrialized world, that’s going to lead to more investments, higher wages, bigger paychecks, more jobs. I’m pretty darn confident that doing that, that will happen. We wouldn’t be doing this, if we didn’t believe that.”